Family Research Beginners – New Students 2023
Session 1 - Setting the Scene, Setting Goals and Setting Up Ancestry Accounts
'One to One' Sessions
Session 2 – Family Trees, Census Records, Show and Tell report backs/practice
Family Trees - from simple 'working docs' to complex online sites
Session 1 - Setting the Scene, Setting Goals and Setting Up Ancestry Accounts
- Introductions
- Completing the questionnaire handout
- The four 'quadrants' - grandparent's paternal and maternal
- Identifying focus area to commence
- Introduction to ancestry.com.au https://www.ancestry.com.au/ YouTube
- Topics arising during the session - Scotland's People, Genuki.com etc!
'One to One' Sessions
Session 2 – Family Trees, Census Records, Show and Tell report backs/practice
Family Trees - from simple 'working docs' to complex online sites
- Genograms - simple diagrams/mind maps to help when getting confused
- Programs on the Internet which produce a simple tree eg https://www.heredis.com/en/
- Programs on the Internet with hints and records repositories – ancestry.com and myheritage.com
'Show and Tell' - where we're at! Members to open up their tree on the screen and provide an overview of where they are at - any problems they would like help with or if not, identify a person you have found interesting and tell us briefly why, who they are connected to. Joint problem solving while observing processes on the screen.
Skills to take away - eg. Using Tree Search to locate people & check for duplication’
One to One Sessions
Session 3 - Using Family History Resources from the Australian National Library
Trove #1 - An Introduction to Trove
'Show and Tell' - where we're at!
Session 4 - Using Family History Resources from the Melbourne/State Libraries
Guest speaker - Judy Barry
Session 5 Using PROV, Mailing Lists, Facebook Geneological Resources
Using Records from the Public Records Office of Victoria - Deb?
Using Mailing List based sites such as RootsWeb
Using Facebook Geneology Related Sites
'Show and Tell' - where we're at!
Skills to take away - eg. Using Tree Search to locate people & check for duplication’
One to One Sessions
Session 3 - Using Family History Resources from the Australian National Library
Trove #1 - An Introduction to Trove
'Show and Tell' - where we're at!
Session 4 - Using Family History Resources from the Melbourne/State Libraries
Guest speaker - Judy Barry
- Family History resources at Melbourne City Library
- Links to Resources at the State Library of Victoria
Session 5 Using PROV, Mailing Lists, Facebook Geneological Resources
Using Records from the Public Records Office of Victoria - Deb?
Using Mailing List based sites such as RootsWeb
Using Facebook Geneology Related Sites
'Show and Tell' - where we're at!